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Labyrinth is an interactive installation for spiritual journeys. It's for anyone who wants a break from surfing the surface of culture to contemplate the deeper things of life.
Labyrinth reshapes a 12th-century ritual for the 21st century. Its maze-like path takes you on a symbolic journey, creates space to unwind and think - in particular about our relationships with ourselves, one another, our planet and God.
Designed for young and old alike, it provides a mixture of rituals and visuals, of contemplative words and contemporary ambient music, of symbols and media to help guide the spiritual traveller.
Labyrinths were a feature of many medieval cathedrals - one of the best remaining examples is found in Chartres Cathedral in northern France. Unlike a maze they have only one path - there are no dead ends. People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to contemplative prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
This contemporary version includes music, meditations, art, media and symbolic activities at intervals along the path. Participants walk the Labyrinth with a music player and headphones, in their own relaxing soundworld, at their own pace. Each track contains meditations, instructions and music relating to a part of the labyrinth [see Texts].
The path has three stages - the 'inward' journey, the centre and the 'outward' journey. The theme of the 'inward' journey is letting go of things which hinder our wholeness and inner approach to God. The centre of the Labyrinth is a space of meditative prayer and peace. The theme of the 'outward' journey is relationship - with ourselves, with others and with the planet - seen in the light of our relationship with God.


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Samford University's Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing has received a federal grant designed to help ease the national shortage of nursing educators. Samford received the seventh largest award of the 106 Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) grants awarded to institutions across the U.S. for 2012-13.
The $854,146 grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, will provide loans for graduate students pursuing an advanced degree with the intent to serve as faculty in a school of nursing.
Samford received the largest of three grants in the state of Alabama. The University of Alabama-Birmingham ($292,686) and the University of South Alabama ($95,098) also received grants this year.
The NFLP addresses a critical need in health care, according to Jane S. Martin, associate dean in the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing. Students who receive the loans for master's or doctoral degree programs can have up to 85 percent of the loan forgiven in exchange for service as full-time nursing faculty members at an accredited school of nursing.
The 2012-13 grant will fund up to 25 new students, Martin said. Currently 43 Samford nursing graduate students receive funds from the loan program, and students can continue to receive loans as long as they maintain good academic standing. The Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing hopes to extend NFLP funds to every qualified nurse educator student in the 2012-13 year, Martin explained.
"There is a national shortage of both nurses and nurse educators, and the NFLP provides a great incentive to pursue a career in education," said Martin. "Increasing the number of highly qualified nurse educators is essential to the future of healthcare."
Faculty shortages in nursing schools across the country are limiting student capacity at a time when the need for professional registered nurses continues to grow, Martin explained. According to a study by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), nursing schools turned away more than 75,500 qualified applicants in 2011. Nearly two-thirds of the schools participating in the survey cited faculty shortages as a primary reason for not accepting all qualified applicants, she noted.
With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, more than 32 million Americans will soon gain access to healthcare services, which will increase demand for registered nurses and advanced practice nurses, Martin noted. A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released in February 2012 estimates the expected number of employed nurses to grow from 2.74 million in 2010 to 3.45 million in 2020. The total number of job openings for nurses due to growth and replacements is projected to be 1.2 million by 2020.
Without additional faculty, enrollment in nursing schools cannot increase fast enough to keep up with demand, according to Martin. She cited a September 2011 study by the AACN in which 1,088 faculty vacancies were identified in a survey of 603 nursing schools with baccalaureate and/or graduate programs across the country. In addition to the vacancies, schools cited the need to create an additional 104 faculty positions to accommodate student demand.
"These federal dollars assist in the recruitment of high quality students for our programs and in the training of excellent nurse educators who will prepare the nurses of the future," said Martin. To date, 137 Samford students have benefited from NFLP grants and are serving as nursing educators across the country. Our unique online curriculum allows us to extend our efforts to address the nursing faculty shortage far beyond Alabama."
The NFLP was approved by Congress in 2002, and Samford was one of the first 55 nursing schools from across the U.S. to receive funds. To date, Samford has received nearly $3 million in NFLP grants.

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If you haven't heard about Senomyx think of a flavor enhancer like MSG. The bad news doesn't stop there, but the FDA says they don't have to label it. It comes under artificial flavors. Of course, we've told all consumers never use processed foods, and especially anything that says artificial and/or natural flavors which is where they hid aspartame and MSG. What is Senomyx made of? http://www.mpwhi.com/senomyx_sweeter_than_sweet.htm This is so disturbing I would say to boycott all companies that use it like Nestles and Coke.
We are familiar with sucralose, a chlorocarbon poison. Here is Dr. James Bowen's paper, The Lethal Science of Splenda: http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm
Also see what the chemical processing steps in Splenda manufacturing are at: http://www.wnho.net/chemical_processing_of_splenda.htm
So now they are adding Senomyx to Sucralose. Remember that Dr. Bowen also said when he wrote the above paper that if you go from aspartame to Splenda you will maintain the reactions to aspartame and pick up those from Splenda. With regard to reports on reactions from Splenda that is just what is happening. Poison plus poison equal poison and now this disgusting Senomyx is being added which according to the above report starts out with aborted fetus cells. Be warned.
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Senomyx Receives GRAS Determination For S2383 Sucralose Enhancer
2008-11-05 - Senomyx, Inc.
Senomyx, Inc., a leading company focused on using proprietary technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage and ingredient supply industries, announced today that it has been notified by the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) that its sucralose enhancer, S2383, has been determined to be Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) under the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, administered by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). S2383, which was discovered and developed by Senomyx, is an extremely effective enhancer of the high-intensity sweetener sucralose. The GRAS determination by FEMA allows S2383 to be incorporated into products in the U.S. and in numerous other countries.
"Receiving GRAS determination for our S2383 sucralose enhancer is an important milestone for Senomyx," stated Kent Snyder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "Senomyx previously received GRAS status for our savory flavor ingredients, which are currently incorporated into products being marketed by Nestle. In addition to enabling commercialization of our flavor ingredients, these regulatory determinations substantiate Senomyx's discovery, development, and regulatory expertise."
S2383 is intended to enhance the taste of sucralose, a high-intensity sweetener used in a wide variety of beverages and foods such as confectionaries, baked goods, desserts, and dairy products, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products and dietary supplements. In taste tests, S2383 allowed the amount of sucralose in product prototypes to be reduced by up to 75% while maintaining the desired sweet taste. By enabling the reduction of sucralose, S2383 may allow manufacturers to decrease their costs of goods and potentially improve the taste characteristics of certain products.
"The rapid progress made with S2383 is indicative of Senomyx's leadership in the science of taste," noted Mark Zoller, Ph.D., Senomyx's Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Discovery and Development. Senomyx scientists have made several key discoveries relating to the human sweet taste receptor and developed patented methods for utilizing the receptor in assays designed to identify new sweet taste enhancers. "S2383 was identified in 2007, and the same methodology resulted in the 2008 discovery of S6973, an exceptionally effective enhancer of sucrose (table sugar). S6973 enables up to 50% reduction of table sugar in numerous food and beverage product prototypes without compromising taste. We are currently conducting development activities needed to support regulatory filings for S6973, and we believe that our experience with S2383 will be helpful as we move forward," Dr. Zoller added.
About Senomyx, Inc. (http://www.senomyx.com)
Senomyx is a leading company using proprietary taste receptor technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients in the savory, sweet, salt, bitter, and cooling areas. Senomyx has entered into product discovery and development collaborations with seven of the world's leading food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies: Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Cadbury plc, Campbell Soup Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Firmenich SA, Nestle SA, and Solae. Nestle is currently marketing products that contain one of Senomyx's flavor ingredients. For more information, please visit http://www.senomyx.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the capabilities and potential for Senomyx's new flavor ingredients, including S2383 and S6973; Senomyx's plans and ability to commercialize S2383 and to complete the development of S6973; the ability of S2383 and S6973 to reduce the amount of sucralose and sucrose, respectively, in food and beverage products; and the extent to which the company's collaborators or other packaged food and beverage manufacturers will incorporate the company's new flavor ingredients into packaged food and beverage products. Risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: Senomyx is dependent on its product discovery and development collaborators for all of Senomyx's revenue; Senomyx is dependent on its current and any future product discovery and development collaborators to develop and commercialize any flavor ingredients Senomyx may discover; Senomyx may be unable to develop flavor ingredients useful for formulation into products; new flavor ingredients must undergo safety review and not all new flavor ingredients may be safe for their intended uses; Senomyx or its collaborators may be unable to obtain and maintain the regulatory approval required for flavor ingredients to be incorporated into products that are sold; even if Senomyx or its collaborators receive a regulatory approval and incorporate Senomyx flavor ingredients into products, those products may never be commercially successful; and Senomyx's ability to compete in the flavor ingredients market may decline if Senomyx does not adequately protect its proprietary technologies. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in Senomyx's most recently filed SEC documents, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, under the headings "Risks Related to Our Business" and "Risks Related to Our Industry." All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Senomyx undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.


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There are fees involved to redeem an impounded pet. You may contact the shelter first at (970)668-3230 to find out the amount owed or you may just come to the shelter during our normal business hours.
You will be asked to show proof of rabies vaccination on a dog, cat, or ferret. If your animal is not vaccinated or proof is not available, you will be issued a citation for Failure to Vaccinate a pet animal. You will be given 20 days to provide the shelter with proof of rabies vaccination and have the citation voided, or you may pay the citation fine or appear in court. If you live in unincorporated Summit County, Dillon, or Silverthorne, you will be required to purchase a dog license if you do not already have a current one. Our fees are as follows:
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In order to adopt a pet, you must:
Adoption fees include the cost of the microchip and initial chip registration, spay or neuter surgery, license fee for the first year, current rabies and distemper vaccination, and a veterinary health exam. These fees also partially cover the cost of the animal's care and feeding during the animal's stay at the shelter.
Please understand that the Summit County Animal Shelter reserves the right to deny any application for adoption.
Note: We are not a same-day adoption shelter.


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I'm familiar with sites such as kuler, I'm well-versed in HTML/CSS/JavaScript (as a programmer), and I know what sort of content I want in my website. I can figure out how to lay out my content decently well. But the hardest part for me is figuring out what color each thing (e.g. links, text, background, other elements) should be. I'm terrible at colors!
For example, when you put kuler in Triad mode and pick a color, it shows the color and two pairs of complementary colors, so that the colors are each bold but still work together. But I go to try and put them in a page, one color for background, one color for links and one color for text, it doesn't work at all. I'm obviously doing it all wrong!
What is the best way to figure out what colors to make a website? I'm absolutely terrible at colors, and I thought kuler would help but it's not that easy! Please help me "bridge the gap" between kuler and CSS so that I can quickly and easily pick a color palette and apply it to my website.


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Investing in Paradise
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In the wee hours of the morning in Hawaii, 11-year-old Gwen Pacarro rolled out of bed to deliver newspapers with her brother. At age 14, she ventured into babysitting, and the following year she was part of the team that opened the first Farrell's ice cream parlor franchise in Honolulu.
"I've pretty much been working ever since," she says.
On April 13, her 53rd birthday, Pacarro took the helm as executive director and manager of the Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management Group office in Hawaii.
"I feel like I've been training for this my whole life," she says. "It's a wonderful job."
Pacarro began her career with United Airlines in Portland and Honolulu, but felt stymied by a corporate structure that seemed limiting. In 1983, with no formal finance training, she joined Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley) in Hawaii. Thrilled to be moving home, she was also eager to work in a field with substantial earnings potential.
Continuing to learn while she earned, Pacarro acquired additional professional designations from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her hard work has paid off. Recently, Barron's magazine listed her as one of the country's top 100 female financial advisors.
As a successful woman in a male-dominated profession, Pacarro says she's always felt accepted, respected, and mentored by amazing colleagues, both men and women. She used her minority status, along with her background in psychology, to give herself an edge, tailoring her client base to mainly couples and families.
"Behavioral sciences play a big role in investing," she says. "It's paramount to understand how people's personalities and life experiences influence the achievement of financial goals."
She also credits her "very special" husband, Gary Pacarro, for helping her balance her career and motherhood. "I've noticed that women who succeed in business generally find a partner who complements them, not someone who is just like them," she says. Shared, flexible parenting responsibilities while raising two children kept her from putting her career on hold, a dilemma many women face, she says.
In 1998, she launched the Pacarro Group within Morgan Stanley, a five-person team that now includes her husband, and their daughter Noel Pacarro, as financial advisors. This pioneering internal team approach to comprehensive wealth management for individuals and endowments has been adopted throughout Morgan Stanley and across the industry. "It allows us to better serve our clients in an exceedingly complex market," she says.
Also committed to community service, Pacarro served as chair of the Women's Fund of Hawaii for the last two years. The fund provides grants to organizations that help women and girls become safe, financially secure, and empowered.
"When women thrive," she says, "the community prospers."
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Anna Nicole Smith's Will Officially Filed
TMZ has obtained the official copy of Anna Nicole Smith's will, filed moments ago by Howard K. Stern.
The petition to probate Anna's will was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It is the same will that was discussed during the contentious Florida court hearings. The will doesn't name Larry Birkhead as a beneficiary, but the petition to probate lists him as a party with an interest in Anna's estate.
TMZ got in touch with Ron Rale, one of the named executors, who confirmed that Birkhead has filed a petition to become the guardian of Dannielynn's estate. Of course, you recall, a DNA test confirmed that Birkhead is Dannielynn's daddy. Rale added, "Contrary to any speculation, there is no way in the world that there is any petition to name Larry as a beneficiary of the estate in his individual capacity."
Rale also noted that in the petition, Stern waived any right to compensation as executor.
In the will, Anna is listed to have had personal property valued at $10,000 and real property valued at $1.8 million when she died; however, she still had a $1.1 million mortgage.


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A few days late, folks, but here are the trophies doled out for the four tournaments contested last week.
The Open de Moselle in Metz, France awarded another Yoshi egg, this time to Spaniard (and top seed) Tommy Robredo, who beat Andy Murray 0-6, 6-2, 6-3. It's good to see the Scot (however color-uncoordinated, in Fred Perry) shaking off the rust from his wrist injury. Welcome back.
And U.S. Open semifinalist David Ferrer continues his hardcourt success with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Richard Gasquet to hoist this ginormous trophy. I've heard a few people mention that Ferrer was in top-player could-beat-Rafa-on-clay form during this all-blue fest.
On the women's side, Justine Henin — in her first tournament since winning the $1 million U.S. Open prize last month — takes out Tatiana Golovin 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Filderstadt. And with that victory, she goes home with a sleek trophy and a bright yellow 911 Turbo.
And in Japan, Virginie Razzano follows last week's Guangzhou International Women's Open title with a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4 victory over Venus Williams, giving the Frenchwoman her second singles title in as many weeks.
More French success (but no photo): Pauline Parmentier upset top seed Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-2 to take the Tashkent Open title. Like a true professional, Azarenka has already rebounded by beating Masha in the first round of this week's Kremlin Cup.


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If you are thinking about distributing your PostgreSQL extension modules, setting up a portable build system for them can be fairly difficult. Therefore the PostgreSQL installation provides a build infrastructure for extensions, called PGXS, so that simple extension modules can be built simply against an already installed server. PGXS is mainly intended for extensions that include C code, although it can be used for pure-SQL extensions too. Note that PGXS is not intended to be a universal build system framework that can be used to build any software interfacing to PostgreSQL; it simply automates common build rules for simple server extension modules. For more complicated packages, you might need to write your own build system.
To use the PGXS infrastructure for your extension, you must write a simple makefile. In the makefile, you need to set some variables and finally include the global PGXS makefile. Here is an example that builds an extension module named isbn_issn, consisting of a shared library containing some C code, an extension control file, a SQL script, and a documentation text file:
MODULES = isbn_issn EXTENSION = isbn_issn DATA = isbn_issn--1.0.sql DOCS = README.isbn_issn PG_CONFIG = pg_config PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs) include $(PGXS)
The last three lines should always be the same. Earlier in the file, you assign variables or add custom make rules.
Set one of these three variables to specify what is built:
list of shared-library objects to be built from source files with same stem (do not include library suffixes in this list)
a shared library to build from multiple source files (list object files in OBJS)
an executable program to build (list object files in OBJS)
The following variables can also be set:
extension name(s); for each name you must provide an extension.control file, which will be installed into prefix/share/extension
subdirectory of prefix/share into which DATA and DOCS files should be installed (if not set, default is extension if EXTENSION is set, or contrib if not)
random files to install into prefix/share/$MODULEDIR
random files to install into prefix/share/$MODULEDIR, which need to be built first
random files to install under prefix/share/tsearch_data
random files to install under prefix/doc/$MODULEDIR
script files (not binaries) to install into prefix/bin
script files (not binaries) to install into prefix/bin, which need to be built first
list of regression test cases (without suffix), see below
additional switches to pass to pg_regress
extra files to remove in make clean
will be added to CPPFLAGS
will be added to PROGRAM link line
will be added to MODULE_big link line
path to pg_config program for the PostgreSQL installation to build against (typically just pg_config to use the first one in your PATH)
Put this makefile as Makefile in the directory which holds your extension. Then you can do make to compile, and then make install to install your module. By default, the extension is compiled and installed for the PostgreSQL installation that corresponds to the first pg_config program found in your PATH. You can use a different installation by setting PG_CONFIG to point to its pg_config program, either within the makefile or on the make command line.
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The scripts listed in the REGRESS variable are used for regression testing of your module, which can be invoked by make installcheck after doing make install. For this to work you must have a running PostgreSQL server. The script files listed in REGRESS must appear in a subdirectory named sql/ in your extension's directory. These files must have extension .sql, which must not be included in the REGRESS list in the makefile. For each test there should also be a file containing the expected output in a subdirectory named expected/, with the same stem and extension .out. make installcheck executes each test script with psql, and compares the resulting output to the matching expected file. Any differences will be written to the file regression.diffs in diff -c format. Note that trying to run a test that is missing its expected file will be reported as "trouble", so make sure you have all expected files.
Tip: The easiest way to create the expected files is to create empty files, then do a test run (which will of course report differences). Inspect the actual result files found in the results/ directory, then copy them to expected/ if they match what you expect from the test.


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It Happened in Italy
You are probably familiar with the film Schindler's List, but the name Giovanni Palatucci is one you've probably never heard. Read more about this amazing story in a recent BreakPoint that I researched and contributed to:
In evil times, the choice to defend life can come at a high price. But it is always worth paying.
In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as an annual day of commemoration for the victims of the Nazi regime. They chose the 27th because on this day in 1945, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz. Most know the grim tales of what happened in Nazi death camps only too well—six million Jews killed, the gas chambers, the crematoriums, forced labor.
But while the horrors of concentration camps in Nazi Germany may be familiar, what happened to Jews in concentration camps at the same time in Mussolini's Italy is not.
For Elizabeth Bettina, the story also would have been unknown had it not been for one intriguing photograph of her grandparents' wedding in the early '40s in the tiny village of Campagna, Italy. There in the photo of her Catholic grandparents amidst a priest, some police officers, and other smiling wedding guests, stood an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi.
Bettina couldn't stop wondering about it. How could it be that a rabbi would be standing near smiling people, including police officers, during World War II in Mussolini's Italy? That photo launched her on a journey that would be life changing, which she recounts in her new book, It Happened in Italy.
Bettina soon learned that one of several Italian concentration camps was located in Campagna. But this concentration camp was so different to those of Nazi Germany that the resemblance stopped at the name.
In her book, Bettina interviews several survivors. They each say they were treated humanely in the Italian camps. They were well-fed and well-dressed. In Campagna, for instance, they were free to come and go, so long as they were present for roll call in the morning and in the evening when the doors of the camp closed.
When Italy surrendered to the Allies, the Germans acted quickly to deport Italian Jews to death camps in Germany. But many Italians rose up to protect the Jews from that horrible fate.
In fact, one man, an Italian police official, Giovanni Palatucci—known as the Italian Schindler—played a major role in saving thousands of Jews. When the Germans tried to deport the Jews in Italy, Palatucci hid the list of names from the Nazis. He supplied false documents to help many leave Italy, and others he hid with his uncle, a bishop.
When the Nazis figured out what Palatucci had done, they sent him to Dachau, where on February 10, 1945, he died the death he had saved so many Jews from. "Greater love hath no man than this..." Israel has acknowledged Palatucci as one the "Righteous among the Nations" for his deeds.
Bettina writes, "This story of goodness in a time of evil must be told." She's right. It Happened in Italy is a great reminder that the kind of evil we saw happen in Nazi Germany only happens when individuals participate, or choose to turn a blind eye.What happened in Italy, however, reminds us that in evil times, those who serve the cause of life can write a different kind of story. If the phrase "Never again" is to be true, that's a lesson each of us needs to learn and re-learn.


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Disability in the Workplace and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network
Wednesday 29 June 2011 - Webinar convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office
This 60 minute webinar is convened by the ILO and the UN Global Compact Office to discuss the inclusion of workers with disabilities in the workplace. It will also introduce the recently established ILO Global Business and Disability Network, a voluntary group of multinational enterprises, employers' organizations and similar networks formed at national or regional levels to address the issue of disability inclusion from a business perspective.
The webinar will introduce both the business and the human rights cases for disability inclusion. It will provide inspiration to companies at the time when an increasing number of countries are introducing or revising national laws on disability inclusion following ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Companies will also learn how the ILO Code of Practice for Managing Disability in the Workplace can serve as a guide in their disability inclusion policies and efforts.
The webinar will be conducted by experts from the ILO's Disability Programme and the Bureau for Employers' Activities and a business representative, member of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network Steering Committee.
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Novo Nordisk announces Gruhn, Soeters to switch places
PRINCETON, N.J. Leading diabetes company Novo Nordisk Tuesday announced the appointment of Jerzy Gruhn as president of Novo Nordisk Inc., the company's U.S. affiliate, and senior vice president of Novo Nordisk North America.
Gruhn will replace Martin Soeters, who will take up the position as senior vice president of the European region, overseeing the company's operations in 35 countries. Gruhn is currently vice president of the Eastern Europe region. The appointments will take effect on January 1, 2008.
"We are making these changes at a time when Novo Nordisk is doing well in both Europe and North America and are confident that we have the right leadership to secure our future growth in the two regions," said Kare Schultz, executive vice president and chief operating officer.
"North America is not only the world's largest diabetes market, but also a region populated by people passionate about stopping the diabetes epidemic here and around the world," said Gruhn. "Novo Nordisk will continue to be a leader in changing diabetes by embracing a unique business model that allows us to be socially and environmentally responsible, while achieving fiscal growth to advance diabetes care."
Martin Soeters has more than 27 years' experience in Novo Nordisk in executive management, sales and marketing. Since he took over responsibility for the company's operations in the North American region in 2000 he has grown annual sales from $500 million in 2000 to $2.1 billion in 2006.


text: Release Date: August 9, 2005 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3-1/2 percent. The Committee believes that, even after this action, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and, coupled with robust underlying growth in productivity, is providing ongoing support to economic activity. Aggregate spending, despite high energy prices, appears to have strengthened since late winter, and labor market conditions continue to improve gradually. Core inflation has been relatively low in recent months and longer-term inflation expectations remain well contained, but pressures on inflation have stayed elevated. The Committee perceives that, with appropriate monetary policy action, the upside and downside risks to the attainment of both sustainable growth and price stability should be kept roughly equal. With underlying inflation expected to be contained, the Committee believes that policy accommodation can be removed at a pace that is likely to be measured. Nonetheless, the Committee will respond to changes in economic prospects as needed to fulfill its obligation to maintain price stability. Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Alan Greenspan, Chairman; Timothy F. Geithner, Vice Chairman; Susan S. Bies; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.; Richard W. Fisher; Donald L. Kohn; Michael H. Moskow; Mark W. Olson; Anthony M. Santomero; and Gary H. Stern. In a related action, the Board of Governors unanimously approved a 25-basis-point increase in the discount rate to 4-1/2 percent. In taking this action, the Board approved the requests submitted by the Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. Home | News and events Accessibility Last update: August 9, 2005 |


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OfficeMax Private Brand Writing Products
OfficeMax has expanded its line of private brand writing products by 75% with new pens, highlighters, mechanical pencils and markers. Designed and quality-tested to deliver the writing performance of national brands, these new products are now available in-stores nationwide and at OfficeMax, including:
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October 5, 2007
Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones
By DAVID ROHDE
SHABAK VALLEY, Afghanistan — In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, American paratroopers are fielding what they consider a crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations here: a soft-spoken civilian anthropologist named Tracy.Tracy, who asked that her surname not be used for security reasons, is a member of the first Human Terrain Team, an experimental Pentagon program that assigns anthropologists and other social scientists to American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her team's ability to understand subtle points of tribal relations — in one case spotting a land dispute that allowed the Taliban to bully parts of a major tribe — has won the praise of officers who say they are seeing concrete results.
Col. Martin Schweitzer, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division unit working with the anthropologists here, said that the unit's combat operations had been reduced by 60 percent since the scientists arrived in February, and that the soldiers were now able to focus more on improving security, health care and education for the population.
"We're looking at this from a human perspective, from a social scientist's perspective," he said. "We're not focused on the enemy. We're focused on bringing governance down to the people."
In September, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates authorized a $40 million expansion of the program, which will assign teams of anthropologists and social scientists to each of the 26 American combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since early September, five new teams have been deployed in the Baghdad area, bringing the total to six.
Yet criticism is emerging in academia. Citing the past misuse of social sciences in counterinsurgency campaigns, including in Vietnam and Latin America, some denounce the program as "mercenary anthropology" that exploits social science for political gain. Opponents fear that, whatever their intention, the scholars who work with the military could inadvertently cause all anthropologists to be viewed as intelligence gatherers for the American military.
Hugh Gusterson, an anthropology professor at George Mason University, and 10 other anthropologists are circulating an online pledge calling for anthropologists to boycott the teams, particularly in Iraq.
"While often presented by its proponents as work that builds a more secure world," the pledge says, "at base, it contributes instead to a brutal war of occupation which has entailed massive casualties."
In Afghanistan, the anthropologists arrived along with 6,000 troops, which doubled the American military's strength in the area it patrols, the country's east.
A smaller version of the Bush administration's troop increase in Iraq, the buildup in Afghanistan has allowed American units to carry out the counterinsurgency strategy here, where American forces generally face less resistance and are better able to take risks.
A New Mantra
Since Gen. David H. Petraeus, now the overall American commander in Iraq, oversaw the drafting of the Army's new counterinsurgency manual last year, the strategy has become the new mantra of the military. A recent American military operation here offered a window into how efforts to apply the new approach are playing out on the ground in counterintuitive ways.
In interviews, American officers lavishly praised the anthropology program, saying that the scientists' advice has proved to be "brilliant," helping them see the situation from an Afghan perspective and allowing them to cut back on combat operations.
The aim, they say, is to improve the performance of local government officials, persuade tribesmen to join the police, ease poverty and protect villagers from the Taliban and criminals.
Afghans and Western civilian officials, too, praised the anthropologists and the new American military approach but were cautious about predicting long-term success. Many of the economic and political problems fueling instability can be solved only by large numbers of Afghan and American civilian experts.
"My feeling is that the military are going through an enormous change right now where they recognize they won't succeed militarily," said Tom Gregg, the chief United Nations official in southeastern Afghanistan. "But they don't yet have the skill sets to implement" a coherent nonmilitary strategy, he added.
Deploying small groups of soldiers into remote areas, Colonel Schweitzer's paratroopers organized jirgas, or local councils, to resolve tribal disputes that have simmered for decades. Officers shrugged off questions about whether the military was comfortable with what David Kilcullen, an Australian anthropologist and an architect of the new strategy, calls "armed social work."
"Who else is going to do it?" asked Lt. Col. David Woods, commander of the Fourth Squadron, 73rd Cavalry. "You have to evolve. Otherwise you're useless."
The anthropology team here also played a major role in what the military called Operation Khyber. That was a 15-day drive late this summer in which 500 Afghan and 500 American soldiers tried to clear an estimated 200 to 250 Taliban insurgents out of much of Paktia Province, secure southeastern Afghanistan's most important road and halt a string of suicide attacks on American troops and local governors.
In one of the first districts the team entered, Tracy identified an unusually high concentration of widows in one village, Colonel Woods said. Their lack of income created financial pressure on their sons to provide for their families, she determined, a burden that could drive the young men to join well-paid insurgents. Citing Tracy's advice, American officers developed a job training program for the widows.
In another district, the anthropologist interpreted the beheading of a local tribal elder as more than a random act of intimidation: the Taliban's goal, she said, was to divide and weaken the Zadran, one of southeastern Afghanistan's most powerful tribes. If Afghan and American officials could unite the Zadran, she said, the tribe could block the Taliban from operating in the area.
"Call it what you want, it works," said Colonel Woods, a native of Denbo, Pa. "It works in helping you define the problems, not just the symptoms."
Embedding Scholars
The process that led to the creation of the teams began in late 2003, when American officers in Iraq complained that they had little to no information about the local population. Pentagon officials contacted Montgomery McFate, a Yale-educated cultural anthropologist working for the Navy who advocated using social science to improve military operations and strategy.
Ms. McFate helped develop a database in 2005 that provided officers with detailed information on the local population. The next year, Steve Fondacaro, a retired Special Operations colonel, joined the program and advocated embedding social scientists with American combat units.
Ms. McFate, the program's senior social science adviser and an author of the new counterinsurgency manual, dismissed criticism of scholars working with the military. "I'm frequently accused of militarizing anthropology," she said. "But we're really anthropologizing the military."
Roberto J. González, an anthropology professor at San Jose State University, called participants in the program naïve and unethical. He said that the military and the Central Intelligence Agency had consistently misused anthropology in counterinsurgency and propaganda campaigns and that military contractors were now hiring anthropologists for their local expertise as well.
"Those serving the short-term interests of military and intelligence agencies and contractors," he wrote in the June issue of Anthropology Today, an academic journal, "will end up harming the entire discipline in the long run."
Arguing that her critics misunderstand the program and the military, Ms. McFate said other anthropologists were joining the teams. She said their goal was to help the military decrease conflict instead of provoking it, and she vehemently denied that the anthropologists collected intelligence for the military.
In eastern Afghanistan, Tracy said wanted to reduce the use of heavy-handed military operations focused solely on killing insurgents, which she said alienated the population and created more insurgents. "I can go back and enhance the military's understanding," she said, "so that we don't make the same mistakes we did in Iraq."
Along with offering advice to commanders, she said, the five-member team creates a database of local leaders and tribes, as well as social problems, economic issues and political disputes.
Clinics and Mediation
During the recent operation, as soldiers watched for suicide bombers, Tracy and Army medics held a free medical clinic. They said they hoped that providing medical care would show villagers that the Afghan government was improving their lives.
Civil affairs soldiers then tried to mediate between factions of the Zadran tribe about where to build a school. The Americans said they hoped that the school, which would serve children from both groups, might end a 70-year dispute between the groups over control of a mountain covered with lucrative timber.
Though they praised the new program, Afghan and Western officials said it remained to be seen whether the weak Afghan government could maintain the gains. "That's going to be the challenge, to fill the vacuum," said Mr. Gregg, the United Nations official. "There's a question mark over whether the government has the ability to take advantage of the gains."
Others also question whether the overstretched American military and its NATO allies can keep up the pace of operations.
American officers expressed optimism. Many of those who had served in both Afghanistan and Iraq said they had more hope for Afghanistan. One officer said that the Iraqis had the tools to stabilize their country, like a potentially strong economy, but that they lacked the will. He said Afghans had the will, but lacked the tools.
After six years of American promises, Afghans, too, appear to be waiting to see whether the Americans or the Taliban will win a protracted test of wills here. They said this summer was just one chapter in a potentially lengthy struggle.
At a "super jirga" set up by Afghan and American commanders here, a member of the Afghan Parliament, Nader Khan Katawazai, laid out the challenge ahead to dozens of tribal elders.
"Operation Khyber was just for a few days," he said. "The Taliban will emerge again."


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Killarney is a small city in County Kerry in the west of Ireland and is a great place to base yourself and visit the Ring of Kerry or use it a stopover to the Dingle Peninsula or other places of interest.
Events and Festivals
- Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is Ireland's famous national holiday, celebrating one of Ireland's patron saints, Saint Patrick.
Getting There
By Plane
Kerry Airport (KIR) is located near Killarney and offers flights to Dublin Airport, Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, London Luton Airport and London Stansted Airport with Ryanair. Aer Arann flies to Manchester Airport.
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Public WiFi services are available in many cafes, bars, restaurants and hotels. They are also available on most Irish long-distance Intercity trains, some commuter trains and buses. Internet cafes are available in major urban areas, but are not as common as they once were, due to the growth of 3G data services and public WiFi. However, you will still find them in areas popular with tourists.
See also: International Telephone Calls
There are currently four main mobile phone operators dominating the Irish market:
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- O2 (prefix 086 - GSM900/1800 - 3G 2100)
- Meteor (prefix 085 - GSM900/1800)
- Three (prefix 083 - GSM900/1800 - 3G 2100)
Most European phones and operators will allow you to roam on Irish networks, however you should ensure before arrival that your phone can operate on the GSM900/1800 network and that your service provider has set you up to allow roaming. This is especially true for visitors from outside the Eurozone. You can also buy a cheap prepay SIM card if you have an unlocked handset. This can be considerably cheaper as it means that you will be assigned an Irish number which you can be called at during your trip and your outgoing calls are charged at normal Irish mobile rates.
Pay phones are fairly widely available (but becoming less so) and most take euro coins, prepaid calling cards and major credit cards.
The police service (An Garda Síochána) and fire services can be contacted by dialling 999 or 112 on any phone or mobile phone throughout the country.
An Post is the national postal service provider. They're generally open Monday to Friday, between 9:00am to 5:30pm or 6:00pm, and smaller post offices would also impose lunch-time closure. Half-day service is available on Saturday, from 9:00am to 1:00pm. The General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street in Dublin is the main post office in Dublin, and it is open Monday to Saturday, from 8:00am to 8:00pm. The post offices are closed on Sunday and Bank Holiday. If you want to use private courier services for sending packages you can also use companies like DHL, UPS or TNT.
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Phil Currie, one of Canada's leading paleontologists, helped excavate a virtually complete skeleton of what is likely the youngest ceratopsian dinosaur ever found. Ceratopsians include the famous Triceratops, but others within the group possessed different body sizes, head frills and various numbers of horns.
Juvenile dinosaurs are rare enough, but to find a three-year-old almost completely intact specimen—only its front legs are missing—is so rare that it may be one of a kind. Currie told LiveScience, "The big ones just preserve better."1 Nobody is quite sure why.
This juvenile from Canada had no horns, and the fossil looked eerily familiar. Remarkably, ancient burial artifacts from within what is today northeastern China bear a striking resemblance to this juvenile ceratopsian fossil find. The Hongshan culture expertly carved figurines into the shapes of animals, dragons and people out of valuable materials like jade.
Auction houses sell the dinosaur-like carvings as "pig-dragons" because of the pig-like noses on some of the figurines. But some Hongshan figurines are actually pigs, clearly showing that the carvers knew their subject matter.
Some of their ancient depictions are difficult to identify, but others are plain to see. The dragon figurines don't resemble any standard zoo animal alive today, and one wonders how the carvers could have carved the animal look-alikes without looking at the live animal. Presumably, ancient Chinese artists did not have access to fossils in Canada or even Mongolia where paleontologists found protoceratops fossils in the mid-20th century, nor would one expect the artists to have developed the expertise to reconstruct whole animals from mere skeletal fragments.
Plus there's the question of motivation. Why would they portray skeletal remains as a living animal?
Further, what are the chances that any ancient culture—Chinese or not—would have stumbled upon such a rare fossil, then used it as a template to carve figurines right alongside those of other living animals and people?
At this point, the best explanation for these jade figurines may be that long ago peoples expertly carved likenesses of then-living dinosaurs—even juvenile ceratopsians.
- Ghose, T. Baby Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed in Canada. LiveScience. Posted on livescience.com November 25, 2013, accessed November 25, 2013.
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* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
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The great Durbin in Robert Siodmak's 1944 masterwork Christmas Holiday, which I wrote about at greater length here.
Like Garbo, like Brigitte Helm, not quite like Luise Rainer (who is over 100 and still walks among us), Durbin retired and stayed retired; her abandonment of showbiz is the linchpin of a wickedly amusing (and unsourced) anecdote the late Gore Vidal relates in his memoir Palimpsest: "Deanna Durbin [was] a child soprano and competitor of Judy Garland, whose imitations of her rival were marvelously cruel, invoking a crooked arm and a radiant mad smile to match luminous crossed eyes. But Garland could be equally mordant about herself. When she had made her triumphant comeback at the Palladium in London, inspired by merry schadenfreude, she rang her now-forgotten rival. After many delays and false starts, Garland got the sleepy, ill-tempered Durbin at home in the French countryside. 'Tonight I had the greatest audience of my life!' At length, Judy recounted her triumph. Finally, out of breath, she stopped. There was a long silence. Then a pitying voice said: 'Are you still in that asshole business?'"


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Madam President, recently I introduced S. 700, the Belarus Democracy Act, a bipartisan initiative aimed at supporting democratic forces in the Republic of Belarus. As co-chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, I want to report to my colleagues on the pressures faced by independent media in that country. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has just released their annual report documenting the dangers journalists face around the world, including Belarus.
In May of 2002, CPJ named Belarus one of the 10 worst places in the world to be a journalist due to the worsening repression under Europe's most authoritarian regime. Throughout the year the situation of the country's independent media deteriorated as Belarusian leader Aleksander Lukashenka mounted a comprehensive assault on all independent and opposition press.
While criminal libel laws had been on the books since 1999, they were not used by the Government until 2002. The law stipulates that public insults or libel against the President may be punished by up to 4 years in prison, 2 years in a labor camp, or by large fine. Articles in the criminal code which prohibit slandering and insulting the President or government officials are also used to stifle press freedom. The criminal code provides for a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment for such offenses.
Journalists critical of the fall 2001 presidential elections were targeted. Mikola Markevich and Pavel Mazheyka of Pahonya and Viktar Ivashkevich of of Rabochy were sentenced to corrective labor for "libeling" the President in pre-election articles. On March 4, a district court in Belarus commuted Mikola Markevich's sentence from time in a corrective labor facility to "corrective labor at home." On March 21, a district court released Pavel Mazheyka on parole. Under Belarus law, prisoners may be released on parole after serving half term there.
Other charges were leveled later in the year against a woman who distributed anti-Lukashenka flyers, an opposition politician for libeling the President in a published statement, and a Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta reporter for criticizing the Prosecutor General of Belarus. A former lawyer for the mother of disappeared cameraman Dmitry Zavadsky received a one-and-a-half year prison sentence suspended for 2 years for libeling the Prosecutor General.
Last August the independent newspaper Nasha Svaboda was fined 100 million Belarusian rubles for civil libel of the chairman of the State Control Committee. The paper closed when it could not pay the fine. There are other forms of pressure and harassment as well.
The CPJ report notes the financial discrimination faced by non-state media, including pressure from government officials on potential advertisers not to buy space in publications that criticize Lukashenka and his regime. Government officials also regularly encourage companies to pull advertising and threaten them with audits should they fail to do so, according to CPJ.
When the Belasrusian Government increased newspaper delivery rates, only nongovernmental papers had to pay. When the Minsk City Council of Deputies levied 5 percent tax on newspapers, government papers were again exempt. Such tactics caused such independents as the Belaruskaya Maladzyozhnaya, Rabochy, Den and Tydnyovik Mahilyouski to go under.
According to the State Department's recently released County Reports on Human Rights Practices "the regime continued to use its near-monopolies on newsprint production, newspaper printing and distribution, and national television and radio broadcasts to restrict dissemination of opposition viewpoints."
Madam President, I urge my colleagues to support S. 700, the Belarus Democracy Act, in support of those brave individuals in Belarus, including representatives of independent media, who speak out in defense of human rights and democracy in a nation which enjoys neither.


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Today I am more than pleased to announce the launch of the public beta release of LibraryBox v2.0. From the announcement page on the website:
After months of work, the v2.0 codebase for the LibraryBox Project has reached Release Candidate 1, which means it's time for a Public Beta! There are a huge number of improvements, enhancements, and all around awesome things in the v2.0. I recommend you take a look at the About v2.0 page to see the highlights.
Just a reminder about what "Public Beta" means. This is absolutely releasable code, or I wouldn't put it out there…but no code is fully tested until it's deployed into the world. I've built over a dozen LibraryBoxen using this code, tested them, changed settings and set up Sync networks, FTP'd into them, and just about every other thing I could think of to make sure it was stable. There was a private beta among just a very small handful of testers, but to really make sure that this is ready for prime time, it needs to be in the public. So that's what we're doing.
Almost certainly this code will be the full release v2.0 code. But if one of you brave souls discovers something that we didn't, I want to be able to fix it before we are officially at v2.0.
I hope you enjoy the code. Please build your own, upgrade your existing LibraryBox 1.5 to the v2.0, or better yet, buy a pre-built LibraryBox and help support the project towards the v2.5 release.
There's a lot more coming regarding the release, including a couple of video tutorials and screenshots. But perfect is the enemy of the good, so I'm getting the code out before the website is totally ready. I'll keep adding to the site as we move quickly towards the full release of the v2.0…if the public beta goes as expected, I imagine that will be very quick in coming.


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For a while, it appeared the NRA leadership committed an act of sanity. But, a few hours later, the pills wore off.
The story begins with a group called Open Carry Texas (OCT). This fringe group rubbed both its brain cells together, wrapped itself in what it erroneously believes is the Second Amendment, and decided it would be great theatre to bring semi-automatic carbines into family restaurants. Waving the yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags, a common sight at Tea Party rallies, OCT members handed out leaflets, proclaimed their rights to carry weapons and confronted citizens who had little desire to be in a place where civilians were carrying weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, any one of which could shred any one of their internal organs.
Openly carrying handguns in Texas is illegal, but the law permits anyone to openly carry long guns, from BB guns to semi-automatic military weapons.
Almost all OCT members are white men, but there are a few white women who also believe in their "right-to-carry." Among them was a woman in Dallas who openly carried her 10-month-old twins and a semi-automatic assault weapon.
When Chipotle, Jack in the Box, Starbucks, and other coffee shops, restaurants, and department stores told these thugs, who can even make the rural folk of "Deliverance" appear to be civilized, they were welcome to eat, shop, and browse—but leave the weapons at home—Open Carry Texas escalated its public demonstrations.
The Open Carry people are the same folk who believe in states' rights and the rights of private enterprise to do what they want when they want to do it because—well, business is what-fer makes 'Merika GREAT and the gummint ain't no good nohow. Of course, when individuals and businesses exercise their own rights to refuse service to gun-toting menaces, then individual liberties and freedom don't apply because these businesses, obviously, have been compromised by them lib'ral whackos who believe intimidation and fear should not be prevalent American cultural traits.
In an unsigned 1,400 word editorial, the NRA called Open Carry demonstrations "weird" and "scary." That editorial also said such demonstrations were not "a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself." It stated these outrageous demonstrations could cause open-minded folk to "feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates."
The editorial further stated that "using guns merely to draw attention to yourself in public not only defies common sense, it shows a lack of consideration and manners. That's not the Texas way. And that's certainly not the NRA way."
That set off explosions of anger among the Open Carry Texas gaggle, who had apparently sprinkled an extra dose of steroids in their morning beer and cereal. They stomped their feet, held their breath, typed spurts of hatred onto Twitter and their Facebook page, tore up NRA membership cards, and said the group would stop supporting the NRA if it didn't retract the editorial. Among the tweets, Open Carry Texas declared "The NRA has lost its relevance and side with #guncontrolextremists and their lapdog media."
Within a couple of days, Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, posted a statement on the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action website. He said that the original editorial "was a mistake." Cox said that the alert "shouldn't have happened," that calling Open Carry Texas "weird" and "scary" was "a poor word choice." The retraction was clear—the NRA "unequivocally" is behind open carry laws. The chief lobbyist even said he had a "discussion" with the writer of the editorial and "explained" that the NRA doesn't criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners.
Everything's now just hunky-dory between the NRA and the reactionary right-wing gun nuts.
During the week of the NRA/Open Carry Texas dust-up, and the NRA's sloppy retreat from sanity, about 200 Americans were killed by firearms, about 350 Americans used guns to commit suicide, and about 1,000 Americans who were shot were treated in hospital emergency rooms, according to statistics compiled by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and based upon reports from the Centers for Disease Control.
Perhaps the next action by Open Carry Texas will be to take their weapons into ERs and claim that guns in hospitals are necessary to protect the critically wounded from being further assaulted by nurses carrying sawed-off shotguns in their smocks.


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The Kotlin programming language is a modern language that gives you more power for your everyday tasks. Kotlin is concise, safe, pragmatic, and focused on interoperability with Java code. It can be used almost everywhere Java is used today: for server-side development, Android apps, and much more. Kotlin is 100% compatible with all existing Java frameworks, and has good tooling support. It's a pragmatic language with a very low learning curve, and can be quickly grasped by Java developers. Kotlin code might be compiled not only to JVM bytecode but to JavaScript and Native code as well, but this course is focused on Kotlin/JVM.
This course aims to share with you the power and the beauty of Kotlin. We'll have a basic overview of the language, as well as a discussion of many corner cases, especially concerning Java interoperability. The course is based on your Java experience; it shows the similarities between the two languages and focuses on what's going to be different. Note that this course won't cover the programming fundamentals. We'll discuss: basic syntax, nullability, functional programming with Kotlin, object-oriented programming with Kotlin, the power of the Kotlin standard library, and Java interoperability.


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yesterday i got the call. you know the one, the one you dread. the one where the school receptionist is telling you your child fell off the monkey bars, is crying and might have a broken arm.
oh crap!
so off i go and sure enough he is hurt. badly.
i rush him to our pedi and after xrays and a 1.5 hour waiting room wait because after xrays our pedi is in a meeting and can't be disturbed {yes, the lack of compassion gets worse & we will be finding a new one...} we finally see our pedi again and he's convinced it's fine. bruised and tender, but fine.
no. it's not. trust me and my mama instincts, he wouldn't still be crying or screaming in agony when they twist his elbow during the xray if he was fine.
always ask for a second opinion.
those are the lessons i've learned with maddie bean's issues, always. always ask for a second opinion.
we're sent home, with a sling but no brace because the pedi is adamant that he's fine & they're not going to do anything more than put him in a cloth sling. but... low and behold, half an hour later i get the call that the second opinion sees an elbow fracture and that some of the tissue has ripped away from the bone.
this was the moment when i wanted to yell really loudly I TOLD YOU SO!!
so back we go to the pedi for a temp brace and some drugs for the pain.
my poor little man. he was so brave. all. day. long. he cried almost all afternoon long but he was so, so, so brave.
today we see the ortho who i hear is amazing.
always ask for a second opinion. always.


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Low grade glioma segmentation using an automatic computational technique in magnetic resonance imaging
(Sociedad Venezolana de Farmacología Clínica y Terapéutica, 2018)
Through this work we propose a computational technique for
the segmentation of a brain tumor, identified as low grade
glioma (LGG), specifically grade II astrocytoma, which is
present in magnetic resonance images (MRI). This technique
consists of 3 stages developed in the three-dimensional
domain. They are: pre-processing, segmentation and postprocessing.
The percent relative error (PrE) is considered to
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Driving in Europe After Brexit – What You Need To Know
It has never been easier to drive to Europe. Whether you drive onto a ferry, or hop on the train and go through the tunnel, you're there in no time and ready for the exciting journey ahead. Be careful when overtaking on a two-way stretch, as it's harder to see ahead when sitting on the 'wrong' side! As well as making sure you're driving on the right, there are a few other things you need to bear in mind and pack before you book the accommodation.
Driving In Europe: After Brexit
If and when the UK leaves the EU it has been said that any motorists will need a 'green card' to get across borders. This 'green card' is really just an international insurance certificate proving you have the minimum level of cover.
Some insurers have already started offering these to customers that upgrade their cover but if you don't you may need to give two weeks notice as to your intention to travel.
It's currently up in the air as to whether these green cards will be necessary as the bill to waive them hasn't made it through the legislation so if you're planning on travelling soon we recommend getting one sooner rather than later.
Driving In Europe: Pre Holiday Checks
The car itself really ought to have a few checks. The basics should do, oil, water, any other fluid levels and make sure your tyres are all legal and inflated.
Ideally, book it in with MotorEasy for a full service. That way they will warn you of any issues that could lead to a breakdown and sort them out. Better safe than broken down by an Autoroute.
Ask the garage about whether you can manually adjust the headlamp beam to dip to the right. Or whether you need a set of deflectors to stick onto the glass. Remember that the car must be legal, so that means a current MOT, road tax and insurance.
Driving In Europe: What Documents Do You Need?
Before going anywhere, make sure that your car insurance covers you for the journey. If not, get an extension and ensure that you print out the relevant information to take with you.
Don't forget breakdown recovery, does your existing policy cover Europe or will you need more?
Get A MotorEasy European Breakdown Cover Quote
Proof that you own the car is also required, so the V5C registration should be put in a folder with all your other documentation. Also, if your registration plate does not have GB or GB Euro signage than you'll need a GB sticker as well.
Driving In Europe: What Extra Items Do You Need?
Obviously, you aren't going anywhere without a passport, but you'll also need your driving licence. Never mind a bucket and spade, there are other items you will need, depending on the countries you intend to visit, most standard European Driving kits contain:
- Reflective jackets for all passengers
- A breakdown warning triangle
- First aid kit
- Fire extinguisher
- GB Sticker
- Foil Blanket
- Headlamp Beam Converters
It's important that you research the countries you're travelling to find out if anything else is required. For instance, in France, you need a breathalyser in your car and an emissions sticker to avoid a fine.
You may also want to take some basic essentials, like oil, coolant and empty fuel can.
Check what you need for driving in Europe
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Charging around the world in a van, playing shows tanked-up on cheap beer is widely seen as the ideal way to spend your early 20s. At some point, though, the hangover will kick in.
Until recently, that was the case for Watford heavy rockers Lower Than Atlantis, following third album Changing Tune.
"Our mates have got decent jobs and they're having kids," says frontman Mike Duce. "We were thinking, 'Well, we've had a good run', so we said to ourselves: 'We'll make another album and really spend some time on it. Then we'll see what happens down the line.'"
Returning to Watford
LTA have gone back to go forward: returning to Watford, where they recorded their debut Far Q, to build their own studio. "It was just a massive open space and we had to get the chippies in," says Mike. The band also brought friend and Far Q producer Dan Lancaster back onboard. "He's a pop producer from a heavy rock background, so he's really good at merging [the two worlds]," explains Mike.
Their playing also shifts, moving between streamlined, catchy riffing and technical flourishes - Mike calls "a little intricate American Football-esque riff" on English Kids In America his favourite.
"We did weird things as well, where we'd just record four or five notes from a scale and then, on a computer, make the riff out of that," says co-guitarist Ben. "It's so fun, making something new out of your guitar [part]."
Tone Central
Words Don't Come So Easily is a prime example, while storming advance track Here We Go is tone central - if you like late-90s metal guitar.
"We were re-amping, recording to DI and experimenting with different amps," says guitarist Ben Sansom, with the winners often Marshall JCM800 or 900s, or an Orange Thunderbird 50.
Guitar duties were handled by two Gibson Les Paul Customs for Ben and American and Japanese Strats for Mike. "It's the whole Pumpkins thing, isn't it?" summarises the frontman."It's the final puzzle piece in the album's 'back to the start' philosophy.
"We got ahead of ourselves signing to a major too early," says Mike. "This is back to Watford, our studio, our mate did it…" Ben interjects: "It's what made LTA good before."
Lower Than Atlantis will be touring throughout July and release their self-titled album on 29 September.


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In yesterday's post I discussed the different measures labeled U-1 through U-6 that are used to measure the rate of unemployment. Kevin Philips, in an interesting article titled NUMBERS RACKET: Why the economy is worse than we know in the May 2008 issue of Harper's magazine, points out how the 'official' unemployment rate U-3 masks the true state of affairs.
In January 2008, the U-4 to U-6 series produced unemployment numbers ranging from 5.2 percent to 9.0 percent, all above the "official" number [U-3]. The series nearest to real world conditions is, not surprisingly, the highest: U-6, which includes part-timers looking for full-time employment as well as other members of the "marginally attached," a new catchall meaning those not looking for a job but who say they want one. Yet this does not even include the Americans who (as Austan Goolsbee puts it) have been "bought off the unemployment rolls" by government programs such as Social Security disability, whose recipients are classified as outside the labor force.
If you want a rule of thumb, the 'real' rate of unemployment (i.e., U-6), which would (and should) include so-called 'discouraged' workers, 'marginally attached' workers, and workers who are forced to work part-time for economic reasons, would be roughly twice the officially reported unemployment rate (U-3). So currently the figure would be close to 20%.
Phillips says that these multiple measures of unemployment were introduced over time, giving the public the impression that the number of unemployed is smaller than it really is, a phenomenon that has been labeled as 'Pollyanna Creep' in unemployment. The process began in the early 60s in the Kennedy administration, which decided to take the out-of-work people who had stopped looking for jobs for whatever reason (even if it was for relevant reasons like no jobs were there to be found) out of the unemployed category and put them in the category of 'discouraged workers', thus lowering the unemployment figures. Reagan inflated the size of the labor force by including the military in it, again effectively reducing the unemployment rate without any substantive gains. Bill Clinton added to the manipulation by making the unemployment sampling size smaller by dropping a disproportionate number of inner city households and changing the formulas to produce lower black unemployment.
But it was not only unemployment figures that have been manipulated to provide a rosier picture of the nation's economic health. Successive governments have also manipulated other key economic indicators such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) (that measures the rate of inflation) and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (which should reflect the size of the economy).
You would think that measuring the CPI would be simple and straightforward. You take some year as the baseline for calculating the cost of a basic basket of goods and services that people need to live (rent/mortgage, food, energy, clothing, etc.) and then calculate how the total cost of that basket changes over time. Basically the same idea as goes into stock market indices like the Dow Jones or S&P. But what governments do when the CPI number comes out too high is change the formula to make it smaller.
One method of lowering the CPI is by product substitution. If the price of an item in the original basket of goods (say a particular cut of meat) gets more expensive, it is assumed that people shift to a lower cost item (say ground beef). So by changing an item in the basket to a cheaper one, the CPI is lowered. Another finagle is changing the product weighting. If one item gets too high it is assumed that people buy less of that and more of the cheaper items in the basket, again reducing the CPI. There is also something called the hedonistic adjustment which assumes that improvements in the quality of products and services reduces the effective cost of goods.
In other words, the basket of goods and the way of measuring its cost is not kept constant but keeps changing. One might be able to make the case that such changes are meaningful since they reflect reality (after all people do change their buying habits based on cost) except that Phillips says that the changes are always in the direction of lowering costs, thus reducing the CPI, and never the other way around, which is what makes it a boondoggle. When conditions get better and people feel flush, ground beef is not replaced with steak in the CPI basket, though that too reflects reality.
There are other methods of disguising the CPI. Richard Nixon created a new category called the 'core' inflation rate that was arrived at by excluding things like food and energy that were creating high inflation rates in his time. In other words, he removed from the inflation index those things that were the main causes of inflation, a neat trick. This figure is still reported. Ronald Reagan finagled the housing rent component in the CPI to reduce its impact on inflation. The administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton continued this practice.
Next: Other fiddles
POST SCRIPT: Boom times for the oligarchy
Because of loss of employment and income, increasing numbers of people are using up the money they had set aside for retirement to stay afloat now, which makes the idea of raising the retirement age even more pernicious. Meanwhile, employers have been taking advantage of the recession to squeeze workers even more to increase their profits. As Bob Herbert says, "The recession officially started in December 2007. From the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2009, real aggregate output in the U.S., as measured by the gross domestic product, fell by about 2.5 percent. But employers cut their payrolls by 6 percent. In many cases, bosses told panicked workers who were still on the job that they had to take pay cuts or cuts in hours, or both. And raises were out of the question… the carnage that occurred in the workplace was out of proportion to the economic hit that corporations were taking." He quotes professor Andrew Sum who studies labor issues saying that what is unprecedented now is that "At the end of the fourth quarter in 2008, you see corporate profits begin to really take off, and they grow by the time you get to the first quarter of 2010 by $572 billion. And over that same time period, wage and salary payments go down by $122 billion."
So times are booming for the oligarchy who not only are doing well while most of the country isn't, they also delight in flaunting their wealth, as epitomized by the Clintons reportedly spending anywhere in the range of one to five million dollars on their daughter's wedding. Paul Craig Roberts points out that the Clintons did not start out in life rich and spent most of their lives in government jobs. He asks us to ponder whose interests they were serving while in government that has enabled them to reap such rich rewards now. He raises a similar question about England's Tony Blair's newly acquired wealth.


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Dear All,I'll be exhibiting for the first time this year in Munich. Here is a link to pictures of selected pieces that I will bring. Each comes with a 10x10 cm print behind acrylic glass in order to place this next to the piece in your showcase. I'd be very happy to see you there!Cheers, Mischa


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I spent part of the day today working on these Christmas Napkins. I am so tickled with the way they turned out!! I made them out of a piece Painter's Canvas Drop Cloth that I found at Lowe's for a mere $5.00. The price is hard to beat but I actually do love the way this cloth looks a lot like a rustic linen. I was able to make 4 napkins and two tea towels out of one 4ft. x 5ft. piece. Are you looking for an easy and inexpensive handmade Christmas gift idea?
Here is how I made them. I took a cloth napkin that I already had and used it as a pattern for the size I wanted. My napkins measure approximately 19 inches x 19 inches. I cut out 4 pieces of the Painter's Cloth. I turned in the raw edges approximately 1/4 inch on all four sides and ironed it down with a hot iron. I then turned each side in again 1/4 inch and ironed in place. I sewed all four edges down so that all my edges were finished with a double folded edge. This gives you a neat edge. Ironing down all the edges really helped make the sewing part much easier and the edges neater. Don't skip this step!
I then stenciled the word "Noel" on each of my napkins using black craft paint. To do this I carefully folded the napkins how I wanted to see them in the napkin rings and that is how I knew where I wanted to place my stencil. I used a stencil that I purchased at Maison de Stencil but you could also use any alphabet stencil and then you could dip the eraser at the top of a pencil in some paint and touch it down to get the two dots over the letter "E" in "Noel". I also used some blue painter's tape to help keep my stencil in place while I worked.
And don't they look great with the number napkin rings I found at Pottery Barn last year?! :)
I think I am going to get myself another piece of the Painter's Cloth and make some more so that I have a set of at least 6 or 8 napkins. I also made two tea towels that I can't wait to show you. I will be posting them soon!! So stay tuned!
I am linking this post up to Make It 4 Monday Over at Cottage Instincts. Stop by to see some more great ideas.
And I am linking up to Just Something I Whipped Up Holiday Style over at The Girl Creative. More fun projects over there too!
And I am linking up to Thrifty Thursday over at Tales From Bloggeritaville. Stop by for a visit there too!